SilentRun Alternatives

SilentRun is described as 'Small and handy Windows system software tool that can easily let you run multiple programs silently in the background. It can hide program windows and interfaces, and increase or decrease the priority of background processes' and is an app in the office & productivity category. There are more than 10 alternatives to SilentRun for a variety of platforms, including Windows, PortableApps.com, Linux, openSUSE and Arch Linux apps. The best SilentRun alternative is SmartSystemMenu, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like SilentRun are RBTray, RBTray Fork, KDocker and Actual Window Manager.

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  1. SmartSystemMenu icon
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    SmartSystemMenu extends system menu of all windows in the system. It appends next custom items to menu:

    44 SmartSystemMenu alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
    • SmartSystemMenu is the most popular Windows alternative to SilentRun.

    • SmartSystemMenu is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to SilentRun.

    • SmartSystemMenu is Free and Open SourceSilentRun is Free and Proprietary
  2. RBTray icon
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    Allows almost any program to be minimized to the system tray by right clicking its minimize button.

    45 RBTray alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
     
  3. RBTray Fork icon
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    RBTray by Benbuck, fork of RBTray , is a small Windows program that runs in the background and allows almost any window to be minimized to the system tray by:

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  4. KDocker icon
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    KDocker will help you dock any application into the system tray. This means you can dock Openoffice, xmms, Firefox, Thunderbird, anything!

    Just point and click. Works for all NET WM compliant window managers - that includes KDE, GNOME, Xfce, Fluxbox and many more.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
    • KDocker is the most popular Linux alternative to SilentRun.

    • KDocker is Free and Open SourceSilentRun is Free and Proprietary
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    4t Tray Minimizer is a lightweight but powerful window manager, which helps you to free up space on the desktop and the taskbar via the following actions:

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  6. DM2 icon
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    DM2 provides several Windows enhancements that may help in every-day work. One of the nicest and most popular features of DM2 is minimizing windows to floating icons® (unique feature!) freeing both task bar and tray bar space.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
     
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    The Wonderful Icon is a small Windows utility that resides in your PC's taskbar tray. With it, you can:

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    PS Tray Factory allows you to take a full control over icons in the system tray area of the taskbar. With PS Tray Factory you can: hide icons from system tray into menu, change the order of icons in the system tray (sort tray), restore tray icons after Explorer.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  9. Always on Top icon
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    Always-on-top is the free utility that allows any program window to stay on top of all other windows even when it does not have the focus.

    9 Always on Top alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    Process Manager for Windows is a utility which allows you to to set process priority, minimize windows to the system tray, and more—all via taskbar window button right-click menus.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  11. TrayIt! icon
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    TrayIt! - minimize to the system icon tray any program (Outlook Express, Notepad, Word, Internet Explorer, Sunbird, Thunderbird, Opera, OpenOffice etc.) and get more room in the Taskbar!

    36 TrayIt! alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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